The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-20
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

DAkUIA NEWS lIhMS.
Col. g. B. Penrose, chief commits
sary Of the department Of Dakota.
just ordered to Fort Leavenworth,
/ Kan, az chief commissary of the de-
partment of the Missouri, has served
in the department. Of Dakota since
October 1882.
Dakota patents: G. N. Asselstine,
Hamilton, anvil for forming ploW-
shares; also anvil for forming land
sides for plows; J. HI. Aslem, Howell,
plate glass polisher tre-issue); g.
Laube, Huron, hay burner.
The Dakota delegation, nearly two
hundred strong, were among the ear
Hest callers on the President.
At St. Paul, the delegation vas
headed by Gov. Church and Secretary
Mccormack.
I The fine country residence OF Theos
David, OF the territorial board OF agg-
r%iculture, six miles north, Of Mitchell,
burned to the ground. All the cloth.
ing, furniture and everything else OF
value in the house was destroyed.
Total loss $4,000.
AT Sioux Falls, a youngman named
Melvin Davis, fell from the roof Of the
Cascade grain elevator, a distance of
fifty feet, and was killed.
The Aberdeen Evening Republican
has began publication 1t is a Demo-
cratic daily.
Three heavily ladenpassenger trains
came into Mitchell bearing excursion
lists from the East to look over Da-
kota.
At Landau, Francis E. Bowman dis.
trict attorney of Morton county, died
after a lingering illness, aged 20 years.
lie was an able lawyer, an odd fellow,
and had been noble grand.
I. T. Mcintyre OF Grand Junction,
Iowa. chief engineer OF theproposed
railroad from Sioux City to Marshall.
Mimi, died at Canton, OF typhoid
fever. {,
There was held at Fargo the Cass
county local option convention with
representatives from all parts OF the
county. About sixty persons were
present. Plans were adopted by which
it is hoped to carry prohibition this
fall. The appointment OF local COM
mittees was left to the chairman Of
the executive committee, Rev. R. A.
Beard.
The administration has finally in
terested itself in the opening OF the
Sioux reservation. Col. Bannister.
special agent OF the Indian depart
ment, arrived at Pierre, to look into
the urgency of opening the reserve,
and ON his report hinges the result.
He seems to think that the Sioux res
ervation must be cut down..
During the Ashton fair four gentle.
manly strangers registered at the AND
ley house. Their businesses was in Che
fancy line-such as balloons, ect., sold
on the fair grounds. In g. few DAYS
they skipped, with large hotel bill
unpaid: The following day Landlord
Hollenbeck received a letter from the
Commercial Hotel of Faulkton, in.
curing for overcoats which had been
loaned to these gentlemen and which
were to be left at the Aekleyshouse
Complaints of a failure to receive
cars for wheat shipments by private
buyers and shippers were heard by
the railroad commissioners at Car.
rington> and Sykeston. and at Coopers-
town. Mr.. Griggs, of the commission
says the former cases have good
grounds, and that in every instance
the commission will do all possible to
8 traighten matters out.
At Sioux Falls. a genuine bare
knuckle sluggish scrap, Queensbury
rules, took place in the basement OF
the Daily Press Office between G. H.
Craig and w. T. Belrood, printers EN-.
ployed on this Press. The fight was
five rounds, but Belrood, who is much
the smaller man, was knocked out in
the third round. y
In the cas- of James A. Pringle, in
volving the southwest quarter section
FL, township 155, range Sc. Devils
Lake district, the secretary of inte.
rior holds that q mortgagee OF, land
must be notified of q decision holding
an entry for cancellation and allowed
q hearing to prove the good faith OF
the m~ortgagor in complying with the
law it the former asks for it.
The failure OF A. Pollock & Co., at
Omaha carried down their branch
house at Huron.
At Fargo, a gambler named Suffer
and Mrs. John Haas were arrested.
charged with resorting to rooms for
purposes OF prostitution. They were
held under $500 bonds. Mrs. Haas
was formerly a resident of Winona.
and was a sporting woman known as
"Maud. s." She was married four
years ago, protested conversion last
winter, joined the church, and it was
supposed was living a ~virtuous life.
Her husband is said to have caught
the two in bed, and the affair makes
quite a sensation. 4 !.
Attorney General Templeton, Col.
r. A.-Gale and ". T. Quigley are at
Yankton, the two latter 70 sssucceed
the ~resigning members of the board,
and the attorney general as counsel